Vadas József (szerk.): Ars Decorativa 11. (Budapest, 1991)

Events 1990

DECORATIVE ARTS. The series brings together the material of a given period from the collection of the Museum; arranging in an exhibition form enables us to prepare for a subsequent permanent exhibition representing the history of different stylistic periods. Following the Renaissance and the Baroque one, the exhibition FROM CLASSICISM TO BIEDERMEIER was opened on November 2; it was organized by Ferenc Batári and Lilla Tompos. Almost four hundred pieces helped to give a comprehensive insight into the history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The opening address was written by Dr. Anna Zádor, a university professor and an internationally famous researcher into the period. Owing to the illness of the author, however, her masterly speech was delivered by Márta Péter, the Assistant Director General of the Museum. The yearly exhibition reporting on the work of artists receiving the LAJOS KOZMA GRANT has by now become a tradition. This time it was open to the public for a month, from the middle of November until the middle of December. Exhibitions were organized last year in several partner institutes. OTTOMAN-TURKISH NEEDLEWORK IN THE COLLECTION OF THE BUDAPEST MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS was open in Eger from April to November. This was organized by Emese Pásztor, who has been a systematic searcher into Turkish textiles for a number of years. Sárvár, namely the Nádasdy Casde, a favourite spot for Hungarian and foreign tourists, provided the premises for the exhibition THE ART OF CASKETS - ARTISTIC BOXES, which was open from July until October. Here the organizer was Piroska Acs, a researcher in the field and the head of the Documentation Department. In 1990, there was only one, though reasonably important, independent programme organized abroad: the exhibition entitled DN LECHNER 'S ACTIVITY IN ARCHITECTURE. LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OVER HUNGARY IN 1900 was put on in Tokyo and Osaka in the first half of the year by INAX Gallery. A beautiful catalogue and an impressive book complemented the exhibition; the book contained studies by Eva Kiss, and by Eva Csenkey, the Hungarian organizer. The Museum has also selected and lent pieces for several important exhibitions organized by partner institutes. To indicate only a few of the more significant ones, we would like to mention the exhibition KING MATTHIAS AND HIS AGE, which was arranged in the Budapest Historical Museum, and the exhibition BIBLIOTHECA CORVINIANA, put on in the Széchenyi Library. The main developments in the decorative arts of the early twentieth century were introduced in the MADE IN HUNGARY exhibition at the Kecskemét Gallery.